Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Brackyle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackyle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56527, -8.30159
- SMR number
- LI024-134----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On gentle SE-facing slope, in reclaimed pasture, 310m to NW of the Reask River. A standing stone (LI024-296----) lies approximately on the E edge of the monument. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as a penannular-shaped cropmark, open to NE, by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 112: AP 4/3676). Monument is visible as a faint dark green oval-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 29m NW-SE; 16m NE-SW) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 112.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 24 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.